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OCEAN

Yes, OCEAN was the Wordle answer on August 25, 2023 (Wordle #797).

As an opener, it rules out about 95.0% of possible answers.

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Meaning and pronunciation

Pronunciation: /ˈəʊ.ʃən//ˈoʊ.ʃən//ˈəʉ.ʃən/

Noun

One of the large bodies of water separating the continents.

Noun

Water belonging to an ocean.

“The island is surrounded by ocean”

Source: Wiktionary contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0. Corrections.

Wordle status

A word can be a playable guess without being a possible answer.

Playable guess

Yes

Included in the Wordle guess list used by our tools.

Possible answer

Yes

Included among the answers considered by the solver.

Past Wordle answer

Used once

Past Wordle answer: August 25, 2023 (#797).

The possible-answer list is the solver's current list and may change when Wordle adds new answers.

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How OCEAN performs as a guess

OCEAN is a possible answer, so it would solve about one game in 2,358 when every answer is treated as equally likely.

Played as an opener, it lands at least one colored tile in 90.6% of games, misses completely in 9.4%, and leaves about 119 possible answers on average.

In the previous complete v5 benchmark, it ranks #3,186 of 14,855 openers, averaging 3.64 guesses in games solved within six turns.

Try your feedback pattern

Tap the tiles to match your feedback, then see the ranked follow-up guesses.

All gray? Tap a tile to cycle gray → yellow → green.

Useful pattern pages

If you only know part of the word, start with one of these matching patterns.

O___N O in the 1st position and N in the 5th position O__A_ O in the 1st position and A in the 4th position _C__N C in the 2nd position and N in the 5th position

Try next

SIREE SPILT SLART ROOST TORSE STUNG
Words starting with O Words ending with N

First-turn measures

5.03 Entropy (bits)
119 Avg remaining
0.04% Exact match
95.0% Avg ruled out
Higher first-turn entropy than about 85% of evaluated openers
0.92 bits below the highest measured first-turn entropy (~5.95 bits)

As an opener: v5 benchmark

How OCEAN performed in the previous complete opener benchmark, against its captured answer snapshot. These research figures are separate from today's solver recommendations. See the data page for the method.

3.64 Avg guesses
100.0% Win rate
0.72 Volatility
#3,186 v5 opener rank
In the complete v5 snapshot, OCEAN ranks #3,186 of 14,855 openers by average guesses in games solved within six.
1 guess
1
2 guesses
76
3 guesses
927
4 guesses
1,131
5 guesses
201
6 guesses
17
Top-ranked in the current bounded policy screen: SLANT. The policy minimizes misses within six first, then average guesses among wins (3.45 for the leader). Compare the ranking measures

Composition

5/5 unique
3 vowels
Common:
AENO

Feedback chances

Any hit (G/Y)
91%
Green tile
20%
All gray
9%

Example solver route

R O A T E
C A M E O
O C E A N

One example route used by the solver.

This solver benchmark reaches OCEAN in 3 guesses.

Feedback distribution

105 possible patterns. Top outcomes:

241
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195
186
113
78
77
65
65
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Quick reference

Largest feedback groups after playing OCEAN:

10% chance
Suggested:
SIREE
9% chance
Suggested:
SPILT
8% chance
Suggested:
SLART

Follow-ups for common patterns

Ranked follow-up guesses for the 10 most common feedback patterns.

10.2% →
SIREE 5.35 bits
9.4% →
SPILT 5.73 bits
8.5% →
SLART 5.07 bits
8.3% →
SLART 5.27 bits
7.9% →
ROOST 5.30 bits
4.8% →
TORSE 4.54 bits
3.3% →
STUNG 4.75 bits
3.3% →
STEEL 4.68 bits
2.8% →
TRIDE 4.62 bits
2.8% →
LURCH 4.72 bits

Letter-value totals

Base letter-value totals for OCEAN; these do not show whether either game accepts the word.

Scrabble

O1C3E1A1N1
Total: 7 points

Words With Friends

Total: 9 points

Scores shown are base values without double/triple letter or word bonuses.